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Take Action: Keep the CFPB Honest

Take Action: Keep the CFPB Honest

  There’s something you can do to celebrate workers this month. Write to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to urge them to continue to regulate the payday lending industry. Your mes ...

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The best role models imaginable

The best role models imaginable

Leader Libby Fitzgerald of the Lynchburg Chapter wrote a wonderful letter to the Lynchburg News & Advance in support of returning citizens being allowed to volunteer in local schools. From the let ...

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Take Action: from Board Member Jay Johnson

Take Action: from Board Member Jay Johnson

On April 2, we held a press conference in Richmond to call on Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring to meet with us. It was covered in television news from Norfolk to Roanoke and on ...

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News & Advance: Public hearing focuses on raises, discipline at Lynchburg schools

News & Advance: Public hearing focuses on raises, discipline at Lynchburg schools

The great work of the Lynchburg Chapter was recently featured in a News & Advance article by Liz Ramos: "Public hearing focuses on raises, discipline at Lynchburg schools." From the article, "Phil ...

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Virginia Organizing to Hold Media Conference Calling on the Governor and Attorney General to Meet with Anti-Racist Organizations and Work to Dismantle Racism

Virginia Organizing to Hold Media Conference Calling on the Governor and Attorney General to Meet with Anti-Racist Organizations and Work to Dismantle Racism

What: Media conference with speakers from Virginia Organizing chapters around the Commonwealth When: Tuesday, April 2 at 11 a.m. Where: The Bell Tower, Capitol Grounds, Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va. — V ...

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Happy Birthday, Affordable Care Act!

Happy Birthday, Affordable Care Act!

  Nine years ago the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a monumental step forward in protecting access to affordable healthcare for up to 130 million Americans with preexisting conditions. The new bud ...

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Karen Downing: March/April 2019 Leader of the Month

Karen Downing: March/April 2019 Leader of the Month

Karen Downing is a native of the Eastern Shore and its public schools. She went to Norfolk State University and then returned home in 1990 and got involved in service to the community. When Virginia O ...

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Virginia Organizing to Hold Health Care Forum on Expansion of Medicaid

Virginia Organizing to Hold Health Care Forum on Expansion of Medicaid

What: Community health care forum When: Wednesday, March 20 at 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Where: Harrisonburg-Rockingham County Department of Social Services (110 N Mason St. Harrisonburg, VA 22802) Harrison ...

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Susie Joiner and the Lynchburg School Board Action

Susie Joiner and the Lynchburg School Board Action

WSET-TV covered Susie Joiner's comments on behalf of Virginia Organizing at the Lynchburg School Board meeting last week. Susie said, "We need to pull back the covers on this racist system," referring ...

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